Christmas Stories

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As a literary subject Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination & the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging collection Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale; a love-struck ghost disrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen's ' Green Holly'; devils witches Cossacks & peasants cavort in Gogol's ' The Night Before Christmas' The plight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhov's ' Vanka' & Willa Cather's ' The Burglar's Christmas' but takes a boisterously comic turn in Damon Runyon's ' Dancing Dan's Christmas' & John Cheever's ' Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor' From Nabokov's intensely moving story of a father's grief in ' Christmas' to Truman Capote's hilarious yet heartbreaking 'A Christmas Memory' from Grace Paley's Jewish girl in the Christmas pageant in ' The Loudest Voice' to the dysfunctional family ski holiday in Richard Ford's ' Creche'
- each of the stories is imbued with Christmas spirit of one kind or another & all are richly & indelibly entertaining